A handy little trick to get some adrenaline back and bonus exp from Stealth Kill as opposed to a regular kill at the end of combat. When you know you can finish off the opponent with a normal overpower attack, do the following::

- Use the fist-only Overpower attack by switching to the torch.
- Rapidly tap the assassinate button when the Overpower animation is over

Also works as an alternative method for heavily Warrior-Overpower focused builds who want to do some shabby-stabby but didn't invest much in Assassin abilities.

Restrictions:
- Target must be the last man standing (no other threats around)
- Target must not have elemental status applied
- Target must be an NPC that is able to be knocked out
- You did not perform a stealth attack on the target prior to this conflict cycle

Explanation:
When an opponent is knocked out, there is a brief period before he falls to the ground that he is open to a stealth attack. You don't actually need to use Overpower, any knockdown methods work. But Overpower is the easiest to get into assassination range.Note the mercenary took an assassination damage of 1 at the end. This means the NPC was knocked out, still alive, and has a health of 1.

If you failed to perform this move, don't worry. A knocked out enemy on the ground can be "woken up" by dropping a torch on him. He will get up and go into burning status for a few seconds before dying of fire DoT. Before that happens, assassinate is enabled. A good trick to get a total of 4 adrenaline bars on a single target (successful knockdown + successful assassination). Demonstration here: [ Ссылка ]

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